Colonialism stopped some 40 years ago for most of the third world. Since then, shortcomings - namely civil war, corruption, economic and political misery has dogged most of these countries, especially those on the African continent. The ex colonial powers were always blamed for 'raping' the colonies of resources, but this is not entirely true as Nigeria is the 8th largest oil producing country in the world yet 80% live in poverty. Should colonial bashing stop? Should these countries have a good look at what is going wrong and try to fix it - by themselves. As an Irishman, we obtained freedom from Britain in 1922 and were a poor country, yet we have not spiralled into the depravation that has befallen Africa. Dare I play a race card here? I will be interested in what other people think.
2006-12-07
07:42:34
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Draper T
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